Effective Instruction for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students: A Reconceptualization

Promoting Transition Success for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students with Disabilities: The Value of Mentoring

David Waldegrave Leake, Sheryl Burgstahler, Margo Vreeberg Izzo Center on Disability Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, USA; DO-IT (Disabilities, Opportunities, Internetworking, and Technology) Program, University of Washington, Seattle, USA; Nisonger Center, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA. Email: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Received Feb...

Supporting culturally and linguistically diverse students during clinical placement: strategies from both sides of the table

BACKGROUND Increasing proportions of Culturally and Linguistically Diverse (CALD) students within health professional courses at universities creates challenges in delivering inclusive training and education. Clinical placements are a core component of most health care degrees as they allow for applied learning opportunities. A research gap has been identified in regard to understanding challen...

Teaching Strategies to Accommodate Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students in Online Nursing Courses

The purpose of this paper is to explore ways of adapting teaching strategies to accommodate culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) nursing students in online nursing courses to make web based learning more experiential, engaging, and community oriented. With the need to recruit more CALD nursing students and with strong general interest in the nursing profession, it is increasingly diffic...

Re-imagining Education for Linguistically, Culturally, and Racially Diverse Students in a Changing Era: One U.S. School's Alternative Vision

This dissertation sets out to describe, interpret, and understand how an urban K-8 charter school in Philadelphia that serves linguistically, culturally, and racially diverse students from low-income communities seeks to offer a type of education that recognizes its students' minority status in the broader society and exceeds the education typically available for this group of students. In part...

Development of Effective School-Family Partnerships for Students from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Backgrounds: From Special Education Teachersâ•Ž and Chinese American Parentsâ•Ž Perspectives